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Ivica Todorić
Ivica Todorić (; born 2 January 1951) is a Croatian businessman. Until June 2017, he was the owner and chairman of the board of Agrokor, the largest privately owned company in Croatia. The operations of Agrokor are focused on two core businesses: manufacturing of food and drinks, and retail. Biography Todorić was born in 1951. His mother, Ivana, was a teacher from Kloštar Ivanić. His father, Ante Todorić, was a prominent figure in the agricultural area of the Socialist Republic of Croatia and was the chief engineer and director of Božjakovina farm in Dugo Selo, where Todorić grew up. He went to school in Zagreb, where he also graduated from the Faculty of Economics. He went to school with the former prime minister Nikica Valentić. In 1976, Todorić launched a private company producing and trading flowers. In a few years he expanded the business throughout the former Yugoslavia. Business began to expand into new opportunities - import and export of cereals, oil crops, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kloštar Ivanić
Kloštar Ivanić is a settlement and the surrounding municipality in central Croatia, located in the Zagreb County, about 50 kilometres southeast of the city of Zagreb and 30 kilometers north of Sisak. According to the 2011 census, there are 6,091 inhabitants in Kloštar Ivanić proper and the surrounding ten villages which make up the municipality, 97.2% of whom are ethnic Croats. The municipality is part of the Moslavina microregion. The nearest town is Ivanić-Grad, only 4 kilometres away. Settlements Like most municipalities of Croatia, Kloštar Ivanić is almost entirely rural, consisting of a collection of villages, the largest of which is also called Kloštar Ivanić and which serves as municipal seat. The following is a list of settlements with their populations per the 2011 Croatian census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zagrebačka Banka
Zagrebačka banka d.d. is the largest bank in Croatia, owned by UniCredit group of Italy. It was the first Croatian bank to become fully privatised in 1989 and the first one to be listed at the Zagreb Stock Exchange in 1995. It is one of 24 companies included in the CROBEX share index. Zagrebačka banka was established in 1914 as ''Gradska štedionica'' ( English: City savings bank) by the Zagreb municipal authority at a time when Zagreb had a population of 100,000 and was rapidly developing into a modern city. The banks' primary role was financing the city's public companies. Two years after its foundation, the bank acquired the Zagreb electric tram company (ZET) and invested heavily in the development of the tram network and public transport in general. After World War II the bank was renamed ''Gradska štedionica Zagreb'' in 1946. After a series of reorganisations throughout the following decades, some of its offshoots merge to form Zagrebačka banka in 1977 (intended to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 Births
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 15 – In a court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment. * January 20 – Winter of Terror: Avalanches in the Alps kill 240 and bury 45,000 for a time, in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. * January 21 – Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea erupts catastrophically, killing nearly 3,000 people and causing great devastation in Oro Province. * January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of his children's novel '' Journey Through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Businesspeople From Zagreb
A businessperson, businessman, or businesswoman is an individual who has founded, owns, or holds shares in (including as an angel investor) a private-sector company. A businessperson undertakes activities (commercial or industrial) for the purpose of generating cash flow, sales, and revenue by using a combination of human, financial, intellectual, and physical capital with a view to fueling economic development and growth. History Prehistoric period: Traders Since a "businessman" can mean anyone in industry or commerce, businesspeople have existed as long as industry and commerce have existed. "Commerce" can simply mean "trade", and trade has existed through all of recorded history. The first businesspeople in human history were traders or merchants. Medieval period: Rise of the merchant class Merchants emerged as a "class" in medieval Italy (compare, for example, the Vaishya, the traditional merchant caste in Indian society). Between 1300 and 1500, modern acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rothschild & Co
Rothschild & Co is a multinational investment bank and financial services company, and the flagship of the Rothschild banking group controlled by the French and British branches of the Rothschild family. The banking business of the firm covers the areas of investment banking, restructuring, corporate banking, private equity, asset management, and private banking. It is also known to serve as the advisor and lender to governments and major corporations. In addition, the firm has its own investment account in private equity. Rothschild's financial advisory division is known to serve British nobility as well as the British Royal Family. Past chairman Sir Evelyn Robert de Rothschild was the personal financial advisor of Queen Elizabeth II, and she knighted him in 1989 for his services to banking and finance. History Rothschild & Co is the result of a merger between the French and British houses of Rothschild, each with individual but intertwined histories. British history (N M Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slovenia
Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, and the Adriatic Sea to the southwest. Slovenia is mostly mountainous and forested, covers , and has a population of 2.1 million (2,108,708 people). Slovenes constitute over 80% of the country's population. Slovene, a South Slavic language, is the official language. Slovenia has a predominantly temperate continental climate, with the exception of the Slovene Littoral and the Julian Alps. A sub-mediterranean climate reaches to the northern extensions of the Dinaric Alps that traverse the country in a northwest–southeast direction. The Julian Alps in the northwest have an alpine climate. Toward the northeastern Pannonian Basin, a continental climate is more pronounced. Ljubljana, the capital and largest city of Slovenia, is geogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercator (retail)
Poslovni sistem Mercator, d.o.o. (; Latin for 'merchant') is a Slovenian business conglomerate. One of thte largest companies in Slovenia by annual revenue, it is the parent company of the Mercator Group of supermarket chains. It is wholly owned by Croatian joint-stock company Fortenova Group. In addition to Slovenia, Mercator Group is also present in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia. The core business of the Mercator Group is the retail of everyday consumer goods through a diversified retail network across Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mercator dates back to 1949 and the founding of the wholesale company Živila Ljubljana – the predecessor of Poslovni sistem Mercator, d. d., which was reorganised as a limited liability company on 4 July 2022. At the time of its founding, Mercator sold goods from a warehouse. Today, however, Mercator is one of the most modern retailers in the region with 20,300 employees across the entire Mercat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ledo (company)
Ledo d.d. is a Croatian-based producer of ice cream and frozen food headquartered in Zagreb. Ledo's total revenues in 2008 amounted to HRK 1.19 billion and increased by 16.7 percent compared to last year. The bulk of the income is made up of sales income in the country, which increased by 13.2 percent, and by 28.3 percent, the growth of income abroad is recorded. The realized net profit is HRK 89.4 million, which is an increase of 28.8 percent compared to the previous year. In 2013, at the conference of the International Association of Manufacturers of Ice Cream and Frozen Foods, Ledo Torta ice cream was recognized as the best in the world. It was partially owned by the Agrokor group, which restructured and rebranded as Fortenova Group in 2018. Ledo is one of the largest producers of frozen food and ice cream in Southeastern Europe. Apart from Croatia, it is also produced and sold in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia and Hungary. Beginning of 2021, Fortenova announced it was ent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konzum
Konzum plus d.o.o. is the leading supermarket chain in Croatia, with a tradition of 65 years. The company employs more than 10,000 people, and in Croatia has more than 600 stores in over 300 cities in the continental and coastal region. More than 500,000 consumers shop in Konzum every day (2022). Konzum is the first retailer in Croatia to introduce online store and door-to-door delivery and the online store has more than 155,000 registered users (2022) and covers the wider area of the City of Zagreb, Split, Zadar, Rijeka, Osijek, Đakovo, Vukovar and Vinkovci. Konzum's total sales revenue in 2021 amounted to HRK 10.423 billion. As of April 1, 2019, the company Konzum d.d. operates as Konzum plus d.o.o. Fortenova Group is the only founder of the company Konzum plus d.o.o. History * 1957 Konzum opens the first supermarket in Zagreb at Ilica 22, as well as the first supermarket in the country at the time. * 1970 Konzum grows into a retail chain under a new name – Unikonzum. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franjo Tuđman
Franjo Tuđman (; 14 May 1922 – 10 December 1999), also written as Franjo Tudjman, was a Croatian politician and historian. Following the country's independence from Yugoslavia, he became the first president of Croatia and served as president from 1990 until his death in 1999. He was the ninth and last President of the Presidency of SR Croatia from May to July 1990. Tuđman was born in Veliko Trgovišće. In his youth, he fought during World War II as a member of the Yugoslav Partisans. After the war, he took a post in the Ministry of Defence, later attaining the rank of major general of the Yugoslav Army in 1960. After his military career, he dedicated himself to the study of geopolitics. In 1963, he became a professor at the Zagreb Faculty of Political Sciences. He received a doctorate in history in 1965 and worked as a historian until coming into conflict with the regime. Tuđman participated in the Croatian Spring movement that called for reforms in the count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PR Croatia
The Socialist Republic of Croatia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Socijalistička Republika Hrvatska, Социјалистичка Република Хрватска), or SR Croatia, was a constituent republic and federated state of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. By its constitution, modern-day Croatia is its direct continuation. Along with five other Yugoslav republics, it was formed during World War II and became a socialist republic after the war. It had four full official names during its 48-year existence ( see below). By territory and population, it was the second largest republic in Yugoslavia, after the Socialist Republic of Serbia. In 1990, the government dismantled the single-party system of government – installed by the League of Communists – and adopted a multi-party democracy. The newly elected government of Franjo Tuđman moved the republic towards independence, formally seceding from Yugoslavia in 1991 and thereby contributing to its dissolu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikica Valentić
Nikica Valentić (; born 24 November 1950) is a Croatian entrepreneur, lawyer and politician who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 1993 to 1995. He is to date the youngest person to have served in that capacity, being 42 years old when taking office, and is also the first Croatian prime minister born after World War II. A native of Gospić, Valentić graduated from the Zagreb Faculty of Law.Nikica Valentić , Deputies of the 5th Assembly of the Before being involved in politics, he was a high-ranking official of INA, the Croatian oil company. On 4 April 1993, as a member of the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
